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Thanks to universal testing and easy access to treatment, the Canadian province of British Columbia has seen a major decease in HIV-related mortality.
Also known as the Mexico City policy, the rule increases abortion demand and has consequences for a range of other health matters such as HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer and child health and well-being.
In Sudan, female genital cutting is common among many communities. The use of movies that debate this question could change people’s opinions about the practice.
There’s a growing body of evidence that shows we could be doing more for the close to billion children at risk of intestinal worms. We simply cannot afford to ignore it.
As in other parts of the world, the war on drugs in Southeast Asian countries has huge social, moral and medical costs. Now, an approach that places harm reduction at its centre is gaining support.
Studies of animal-human interactions in various settings could perhaps help prevent bird flu and the mass slaughter of animals it inevitably leads to.
Research has yet to reveal why and how obesity rates have surged around the world in the past few decades.
There’s no good reason why diagnosis rates differ. And it may be down to gender discrimination.
Skin whitening among women has long been commonplace, but now young Asian men too, are using a plethora of whitening products.
For an emerging country like India, it is easier to take part in exploratory missions to Mars than to tackle its sanitation challenge.
There are good reasons why ‘negative data’ and wrong hypotheses should be made available to everyone.
The burden of an ageing population on health systems is only going to grow, in both rich and poor countries.
Western science is “discovering” the medical potential of ayahuasca, which Amazonian indigenous groups have used ritualistically for centuries.
As obesity has become a health concern globally, weight loss information has proliferated – with questionable effects on its prevalence.
People with anosmia have no sense of smell, and there is no cure for the condition.
Of women who die from cervical cancer, 87% live in poor countries.
Women already face high levels of violence in Haiti. But natural disasters can provide a good opportunity to intervene.
A public health programme respected locally, lauded globally, and based on the best science for helping homeless crack users, is at risk of falling victim to Brazil’s partisan politics.
Medical entries on Wikipedia are widely consulted across the world. Doctors and medical researchers need to make efforts to ensure the content on the online collaborative encyclopedia is accurate.
Haiti has been struck by natural disasters before. Here’s what we learned about helping victims.
Duterte says there are three million drug users in the Philippines. There are almost certainly many fewer than that.
Can Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte learn anything from Thailand’s failed campaign against drugs in the early 2000s? Maybe to adopt a less bloody and more comprehensive approach.
Turkey’s high cesarean rates cannot be tackled by top-down restrictive laws.
There’s one important piece of the puzzle we’re missing when it comes to antimicrobial resistance.